AKIPRESS.COM - Filipino Bishop Wenceslao Padilla, the Prefect of Ulaanbaatar, who started the Catholic mission in Mongolia 1992 died on Sept. 25, Vatican News reported.

Filipino Bishop Wenceslao Padilla, the Prefect of Ulaanbaatar, the first and only bishop of Mongolia who started and oversaw the growth of the Catholic Church in the East Asian nation, died on Tuesday, Sept. 25.

The bishop succumbed to heart attack in Ulaanbaatar. He was 68.